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Definition of: Arawakan
(ä′rä·wä′kən) noun
1. The most widely spread South American Indian linguistic stock, found from the headwaters of the Paraguay River, in southern Bolivia, to the northernmost part of the South American continent, and throughout the Antilles.
2. A member of any of the tribes speaking these languages. Also Arawak.
—adjective Of or pertaining to this linguistic stock.
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